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---+ Ducky's Paper for History of the Book
It needs to be 10pp, due 28 Nov.

Assertions:
   * written Arabic is different from spoken Arabic
   * Arab culture discourages most art forms, leaving calligraphy as its highest(?) form
   * literacy is low in Arabic-speaking countries
      * literacy went up in Turkey after switching to modified Latin alphabet
      * caveat: huge educational push at same time
   * number of books published in Arabic is low
   * Koran oral
   * Koran not translated into vernacular
   * British fired all Ottoman printers
   * Lebanese civil war
   * typography is a PITA (look up Thom's paper)
   * Sharia is oral law (Messick?)
   * typography: start and stop lines different
   * type expensive
      * multiple letterforms
      * LOTS of ligatures
      * vowel points

Topic revision: r1 - 2005-11-08 - DuckySherwood

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